MMH: What if sensing could see inside the box?
Modern Material Handling Special Issue: Pallets & Packaging, the final frontier of the supply chain.
Modern Materials Handling (MMH) provides comprehensive coverage of materials handling productivity solutions for professionals in distribution, warehousing and manufacturing. Recently MMH published a special digital Issue titled,
PALLETS & PACKAGING: The Final Frontier of Supply Chain Optimization.
This issue is dedicated to covering trends, issues, market needs, and equipment for how companies today are optimizing with automation in packaging processes and their supply chain.
Using 3D mmWave Imaging for automated package inspection
You can find ThruWave 3D mmWave Imaging for automated package inspection featured in two articles:
P. 10 "Packaging Automation as a Bottleneck Buster"
The article includes trends and equipment for automating packaging lines, and a dedicated sidebar on ThruWave 3D millimeter wave imaging titled,
"What if sensing could see inside the box?"
P. 35 "Cubing and Weighing: Right on the money"
The article includes trends and equipment for cubing and weighing focused on current technologies and the new emerging solution of ThruWave 3D millimeter wave imaging.
Packaging Automation as a Bottleneck Buster
Click here to read the full article on MMH.com
This blog includes summary or excerpts from the article by Roberto Michel, MMH Senior Editor, titled Packaging Automation as a Bottleneck Buster.
The full article focuses on automating packaging solutions, and how deploying automation in this area can lead to reduction of labor needed compared to manual pack out. This is a timely topic, given the current state of labor shortage in many industries including manufacturing, warehousing and supply chain distribution.
The article focuses on manual pack out operational pain point needs, and opportunities where automation technologies can help. A big challenge is reducing the need for manual labor along with requirements for reliability at high throughput. Today's packaging automation solutions seek to help reduce the need for human labor while seeking to optimize package right-sizing and minimize dim weight charges. The article includes companies such as;
Quadient,
Numina Group,
Packsize,
Sealed Air, and
ThruWave.
MMH Interview: "What if sensing could see inside the box?"
Roberto Michel of Modern Materials Handling speaks with ThruWave CEO Pieter Krynauw on the emerging technology of using 3D mmWave imaging for packaging automation. While traditional packaging automation equipment offers cubing and dimensioning equipment to collect dimensional data from external measurements, there is a new technology alternative using 3D millimeter waves developed by ThruWave that collects data from both the container and interior contents to perform a variety of automated inspection applications.
For packaging automation, ThruWave's 3D mmWave imaging inspection solution can perform cube utilization through sealed packages, measure how much of a package's cube is taken up by items inside, and how much is wasted space. Other applications for automated inspection with 3D millimeter wave imaging include; detecting anomalies through boxes to identify liquid leaks in outbound packages, verify item count, or detect for missing or damaged goods.
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